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complete actions to the senator feinstein's proposal, please limitations on high capacity ammunition magazines, and i think everybody has given as many statements as they want to give. i will yield to the senator and then we will go right to the -- the senior senator of california and the senator from texas. >> i will not speak any more on the legislation before us unless senator feinstein forgot what i said. >> none of us have. >> thank you. as long as i have the floor, i will say what we normally say about what is on the agenda. we have two nominees on the agenda. we have a request on our side to hold them over. i will not have to repeat that when you take that business up. in regard to the rest of the markup, just one sentence. maybe i will say a procedural thing. i know we have amendments on our side and even though i do not have anything to say on the bill further, i hope we respect everybody's right to offer amendments, whoever on our side wants to do that. the only thing i want to say is i am still amazed, after we have had two hearings, we have still not seen an announcement
complete actions to the senator feinstein's proposal, please limitations on high capacity ammunition magazines, and i think everybody has given as many statements as they want to give. i will yield to the senator and then we will go right to the -- the senior senator of california and the senator from texas. >> i will not speak any more on the legislation before us unless senator feinstein forgot what i said. >> none of us have. >> thank you. as long as i have the floor, i...
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senator feinstein's bill for the assault weapons ban. i hope we can get them all out of the committee by the end of this week. after remarks by senator grassley, we will turn to senator schumer for committee consideration of his bill to close loopholes in the background check system. we have to suspend -- even though we were on senator feinstein's bill, we have to suspend that as a major meeting of the intelligence committee at the moment. she has to be there. so, senator grassley. >> i will pass the opportunity to make a general statement. i will wait until senator schumer presents his bill. then i will speak about that bill. is that ok? >> we have before us s374, senator schumer's bill. senator schumer, i yield to you. >> i want to thank you for the opportunity to consider this piece of legislation and the other important pieces of legislation you brought before this committee. i do not want to say too much, because the chairman has asked us to keep our statements short and because i am working on compromise legislation. the fixed gun
senator feinstein's bill for the assault weapons ban. i hope we can get them all out of the committee by the end of this week. after remarks by senator grassley, we will turn to senator schumer for committee consideration of his bill to close loopholes in the background check system. we have to suspend -- even though we were on senator feinstein's bill, we have to suspend that as a major meeting of the intelligence committee at the moment. she has to be there. so, senator grassley. >> i...
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senator feinstein has been and given her history, her words have power that few members have. my colleague mccarthy, who was motivated to run for office because of the slaughter that she witnessed a long island rail road that claimed the life of. the fact that we're likely to get universal background checks and that people are now looking at simple, common-sense gun safety proposals is very important. auto accident the death rate in half by some magic fairy dust solution. itwas years of engineering, was education, enforcement. the way we are going to reduce the gun carnage in this country will be working the same way with simple, common-sense steps to do all we can to reduce it. i think we're on our way. host: tim is next in boston, independent. caller: good morning. in thei could have faith democrats, but they cave all the time. if you are adamant about getting people into the middle class, the way the republicans defend the wealthy and corporations, i probably would be making $200 an hour now. anyway, i just want to make two points. i find it disgusting that a gas bag like r
senator feinstein has been and given her history, her words have power that few members have. my colleague mccarthy, who was motivated to run for office because of the slaughter that she witnessed a long island rail road that claimed the life of. the fact that we're likely to get universal background checks and that people are now looking at simple, common-sense gun safety proposals is very important. auto accident the death rate in half by some magic fairy dust solution. itwas years of...
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congressional quarterly reports that senator dianne feinstein of california all but conceded today that the assault weapons banshee has spent months urging congress to renew will not become law. saying quote i very much regret it, i tried my best, but i guess my best wasn't good enough she told reporters before going to the weekly party lunches with senate democrats. on the senate side they'll being back this afternoon at 2:15. we expect the house to be back about the same time. until thin a conversation on female senators in the senate armed services committee and their impact on military polcy. -- policy. host: staff writer for "roll call" newspaper in washington. women changing the face of senate armed services panel. how so? guest: in the armed services committee, of the six subcommittees, three are chaired by women. in addition to the three subcommittees, they are chaired by women. two of the subcommittees have ranking members who are female. clearly a lot has been made about the fact we have a historic class of women in the senate, there are 20 female senators, which again as comp
congressional quarterly reports that senator dianne feinstein of california all but conceded today that the assault weapons banshee has spent months urging congress to renew will not become law. saying quote i very much regret it, i tried my best, but i guess my best wasn't good enough she told reporters before going to the weekly party lunches with senate democrats. on the senate side they'll being back this afternoon at 2:15. we expect the house to be back about the same time. until thin a...
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senator dianne feinstein admitted that she had heard on ban until ready to go out your drawer,ked away in a waiting for the right opportunity. really? waiting for an unspeakable tragedy to push their political agenda? is it any wonder why most americans don't trust congress? they are simply not serious about making our kids or our country safer. if they were serious, they would arrest, they would prosecute, and they would imprisoned felons with guns, gangs with guns, and drug dealers with guns, as many as they could find. [applause] that's what they would do. and that's with the public wants. but they do not do that. what they do instead, if they let them go free. let's talk for a minute about this thing called sequestration. i run the nra. not an economic think tank. but i watch the news. i see that instead of rational belt-tightening, the first thing the government thinks to do, according to law-enforcement officials, and let thousands of criminal illegals out of jail. you know what? normal people all over the country think that's crazy. [applause] it is as if sanity itself has been
senator dianne feinstein admitted that she had heard on ban until ready to go out your drawer,ked away in a waiting for the right opportunity. really? waiting for an unspeakable tragedy to push their political agenda? is it any wonder why most americans don't trust congress? they are simply not serious about making our kids or our country safer. if they were serious, they would arrest, they would prosecute, and they would imprisoned felons with guns, gangs with guns, and drug dealers with guns,...